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Abstract
Health is more important aspect nowadays and people are more concern about it, hence they started focusing on nutritional content of their plate.Nutritive Chikki, is a ready to eat sweet snack, was elected as a source of enrichment with nutraceuticals by incorporation of water chestnut, flaxseed, sesame seeds and peanuts with jaggery. The rich profile of flaxseeds of omega-3 fatty acids were added at 15% levels in Chikki formulation. The nutritional attributes of sesame seeds utilized by adding it at 10% levels in nutritive chikki.Traditional method of preparation of chikki was adopted.